§ Mr. Wellbelovedasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will publish a chart indicating expenditure per head of population on the health services for each area within the Greater London Council for each of the past three years.
§ Dr. VaughanAs indicated in my right hon. Friend's reply to the hon. Member for Tottenham (Mr. Atkinson) on 18 February—[Vol. 979, c.93–4.]—the provision of such information as can be derived from the annual accounts submitted by health authorities is subject to the acceptability of the cost of extracting and presenting it in the required form. Compilation of a chart in the form requested would involve disproportionate cost but the information for 1978–79, the latest year for which accounts are available, has been calculated as follows and is subject to the reservations indicated in the notes below.
NHS EXPENDITURE PER HEAD OF POPULATIN FOR AREAS WITHIN THE GREATER LONDON COUNCIL, 1978–79 Area Health Authority £ Barnet 152 Brent and Harrow 133 Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T) 150 Hillingdon 152 Kensington, Chelsea and West-minster (T) 305 Barking and Havering 118 Camden and Islington (T) 277 City and East London (T) 202 Enfield and Haringey 111 Redbridge and Waltham Forest 142 Greenwich and Bexley 151 Bromley 126 Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham(T) 211 Croydon 124 Kingston and Richmond 117 Merton, Sutton and Wandsworth(T) 188 NOTES
1, "T" denotes an area health authority (Teaching) and the relative expenditure figures are influenced by additional expenditure on the provision of facilities for the clinical teaching of medical and dental students.
448W2. Expenditure figures used have been taken from the annual accounts of the health authorities concerned. Capital expenditure included in the accounts of the four Thames regional health authorities which is identified as appropriate to specified areas has been included in the expenditure per head of the population of those areas.
Other regional expenditure not so included amounts to an average of £4.00 per head of the population of the regions as a whole.
3. Brent and Harrow area health authority provides family practitioner services for four other areas in addition to its own population. Estimates for family practitioner services expenditure calculated on the relevant proportions of the total population involved have been included in the figures for the areas concerned, namely, Brent and Harrow; Barnet; Ealing, Hammersmith and Hounslow (T); Hillingdon; and Enfield and Haringey.
4. The population figures used are the mid year estimates of resident populations within each area which make no allowance for people living in one area who receive treatment in another, or for the differences in morbidity and age/sex structure of particular populations.